A neurocognitive analysis of rhythmic memory process as a social space phenomenon

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Functional neuroimaging has recently
offered the means to map the workings of the human
auditory system during music processing. I propose a
cognitive theoretical account of rhythmic memory
brain processing on the basis of current functional
neuroimaging data on music perception in the light of
my own work on the brain coding of body perception.
This framework allows unifying experimental
evidence showing activity in brain areas involved in
the appreciation of the emotional cues conveyed by
music, and data showing activity in the same areas but
during the perception of emotional cues conveyed by
body actions. This account postulates that the human
brain may code the rhythmic processing space as a
social space with communicative value.